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Open Public Lecture: Egyptian History and its Many Cuisines: An Exploration of Egyptian Food History
2021-05-29 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Presented by: Dr. Mennat- Allah El Dorry; Food archaeologist and archaeobotanist

Blueprints for Bureaucracy: How the Egyptian Government Designed Settlements in the Desert to oversee Amethyst Mining
2021-06-03 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHEN
Thursday, Jun 3, 2021, 6 – 7:30 p.m.

ONLINE MEETING LINK
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EVENT TYPES
Academics

EVENT SPONSORS
A Lecture Sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt – Northwest Chapter
Co-sponsored by the UW Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization

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DESCRIPTION

The design of a space is an essential element to the organization of productive work generated by the people using that space. The principles of organization of administration can speak to the greater importance of architecture and design as means of control and productivity. This talk will present results from ongoing archaeological survey and excavation of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. The focus will be on Sites 5 and 9. These types of settlements have often been confused with fortresses because of elements from their designs, but fortification was not its main purpose. Various architectural and archaeological nuances demonstrate how Egyptian officials designed their spaces to maximize amethyst production quarried at these sites through the organization their workforces and workspaces.
Kate Liszka is the Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology and an Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino. She received her PhD in Egyptology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. From 2012-2015 she was a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University. Her research for the last decade has focused on interactions between Nubians and Egyptians. Kate also directs an archaeological project at Wadi el-Hudi, in the Eastern Egyptian Desert, where large Egyptian and Roman expeditions mined amethyst during the Middle Kingdom and Roman Period.

Artist Talk with Tatreez & Tea
2021-06-09 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Wafa Ghnaim, MPP’s new Artist in Residence, to discuss Palestinian embroidery and what her goals are for her time at MPP

About this event

We are honored to officially announce our new Artist in Residence, Wafa Ghnaim of Tatreez & Too.
As part of the Artist in Residence program at the Museum, Wafa will be developing our programs that are aimed at the preservation of Palestinian embroidery in our greater mission to present the Palestinian experience with Washington, DC and the world. During her residency, Wafa will be offering talks and tours exclusive to MPP donors and visitors, furthering her research for her second book, and developing the embroidery collections of the Museum.
Wafa is an artist, author and educator (as well as lifelong student) of Palestinian embroidery, and has invested her life’s work in preserving Palestinian embroidery in the United States and in the diaspora. Wafa learned embroidery from her mother, award-winning artist and educator Feryal Abbasi-Ghnaim, at two years old. She began Tatreez & Tea in 2016, to preserve the skills and history of the art form in the diaspora, and she began teaching embroidery in 2017.

Taking Pride in Queer Arab Creatives: A Conversation with the Cast and Crew of Breaking Fast
2021-06-11 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Hear from ‘Breaking Fast’ director Mike Mosallam and members of the cast and crew’s reflections on representation, their work in the arts and entertainment, and their Ramadan rom-com!
Breaking Fast is now available on Hulu | Amazon | AppleTV
Synopsis: Set against the twinkling lights of West Hollywood, Breaking Fast is a romantic comedy that follows Mo, a practicing Muslim still reeling from heartbreak. When an All-American guy named Kal offers to join him in his nightly Iftars – the traditional meal eaten by Muslims during Ramadan – meal after meal, the two start to discover they have more in common than meets the eye.

June 11 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm (not sure the timezone, please double check when you register!)

Palestinian Narrative: Censorship and Creativity in Time of Crisis
2021-06-15 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Over the past few weeks, Palestinian activists have taken to the streets and social media to protest Israeli attacks on Palestinians both online and offline. During this time, a campaign of censorship from the Israeli government on social media platforms has been implemented, with hundreds of posts and accounts being taken down without clear explanations or violations. As a result, Palestinians have found new and innovative ways to share information and content across social media, in order to avoid possible censorship.
The webinar will focus on successful aspects of digital activism in recent weeks, and analyze how governments and social media companies have worked to censor this creative resistance; in particular, the impact of Israel and technology companies on Palestinian freedom of expression and the role of digital activists and influencers during this period.

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Mortada Gzar Discusses "I'm In Seattle, Where Are You?"
2021-06-22 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Gzar will appear in conversation with the book’s translator, William Hutchins. The conversation will be moderated by Christopher Merrill, Director of University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
The event is presented in partnership with Seattle City of Literature, Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, University of Iowa International Writing Program, and Elliott Bay Book Company. This event is supported by The Seattle Public Library Foundation. Thanks to media sponsor The Seattle Times.
Closed captioning will be available at the event. The program will be recorded and posted on SPL’s YouTube after the event.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African American soldier. It’s love at first sight, a threat to them both, and a moment of self-discovery. Challenged by society’s rejection and Morise’s return to the US, Mortada takes to the page to understand himself.
In his deeply affecting memoir, Mortada interweaves tales of his childhood work as a scrap-metal collector in a war zone and the indignities faced by openly gay artists in Iraq with his impossible love story and journey to the US. Marginalized by his own society, he is surprised to discover the racism he finds in a new one.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Iraqi novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and visual artist Mortada Gzar was born in Kuwait in 1982, grew up in Basra, Iraq, and now lives in Seattle, Washington. He earned a degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Baghdad and was later a member of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Gzar is the author of four novels, a children’s book, and a short-story collection; he has illustrated two books for children. English translations of his work have appeared in Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, and Iraq + 100: The First Anthology of Science Fiction to Have Emerged from Iraq, and his journalism and political cartoons are featured in Arabic newspapers. Gzar’s animated films have been featured in international film festivals, his film Language was awarded a grant by the Doha Film Institute, and he created the Seattle Arab Film Festival hosted by the Northwest Film Forum.

Virtual Pride Concert feat. INDKNA | + talkback
2021-06-26 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
4 p.m. PDT/7 p.m. EDT Saturday, Jun. 26, 2021
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
Closing out Pride Month, AANM and YallaPunk are excited to present a debut virtual concert by INDKNA, a Yemeni and Yemeni American band of immigrant and gender nonconforming women. Following the performance, join the band for a talkback moderated by YallaPunk founder Rana Fayez.
INDKNA is a group of Yemeni and Yemeni-American artists and songwriters who offer alternative and empowering narratives for Yemeni women and minorities. As a band of immigrant and gender nonconforming women, INDKNA’s music centers a radical feminist approach in its songwriting practice, as it tackles issues of bodily censorship, political unrest in Yemen and personal struggles. INDKNA uses song to reclaim the Yemeni dialect, and innovates Yemeni music through introducing experimental genres inspired by electronic music, jazz, hip-hop and classical Arabic sounds.

June's Freedom Film: Storytelling for collective liberation
2021-06-30 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
In the wake of increased attacks on Palestinians, the interconnected struggles of those fighting against settler-colonialism have never been clearer. Donkeysaddle Projects’ Vignette Collective strives to connect the decolonial struggles of Black, Palestinian, Chicanx, and Turtle Island’s Indigenous communities. Through poetry, personal essays, and performance, we look at the impacts of settler-colonization and celebrate the resilience of those who have been in struggle. And we want to share it with you.
That’s why we’re inviting you to join us on June 30th at 8pm ET for our virtual fundraiser featuring the work-in-progress from the Vignettes Collective. Get a sneak peek of our creative, collaborative process with our collective of artists, activists, and organizers, while raising funds to support Palestinians in urgent need in Gaza. We hope to see you there!

P&P Live! Yasmeen Abutaleb & Damian Paletta — NIGHTMARE SCENARIO - with Ashley Parker
2021-07-01 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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Since the day Donald Trump was elected, his critics warned that an unexpected crisis would test the former reality-television host—and they predicted that the president would prove unable to meet the moment. In 2020, that crisis came to pass, with the outcomes more devastating and consequential than anyone dared to imagine. Nightmare Scenario is the complete story of Donald Trump’s handling—and mishandling—of the COVID-19 catastrophe, during the period of January 2020 up to Election Day that year. Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta take us deep inside the White House, from the Situation Room to the Oval Office, to show how the members of the administration launched an all-out war against the health agencies, doctors, and scientific communities, all in their futile attempts to wish away the worst global pandemic in a century.
Yasmeen Abutaleb* covers health policy for the Washington Post. She chronicled the Trump administration’s coronavirus response and White House task force in 2020. She previously reported for Reuters.
Damian Paletta is the economics editor at the Washington Post and previously covered the White House for the Post and the Wall Street Journal.
The authors will be in conversation with Ashley Parker, a Pulitzer Prize winning White House reporter for The Washington Post.
*I couldn’t confirm that she was Arab but I went ahead and added this event to the calendar just in case!

ARCE Chicago: A Nubia-Centric View of Egypt's Twenty-fifth Dynasty
2021-07-10 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)
Lecture Information:
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty, the time of Kushite hegemony, was one of the most creative and prolific periods for sculpture and architecture in Egypt—certainly an anomaly for a country under foreign rule. This talk will examine the country the Kushites entered, look at some of the royal and private works created under their aegis, and attempt to solve the mystery of how and why this happened.

Palestinian Virtual Pop-up Book Club: MINOR DETAIL by Adania Shibli
2021-07-18 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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Join writers Susan Muaddi Darraj and Sahar Mustafah in conversation about Minor Detail, the critically acclaimed novel by Palestinian author Adania Shibli. Her book was a 2020 finalist for the National Book Translation Award and longlisted for The International Booker Prize. Minor Detail is this year’s One Book, Many Communities selection by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. Celebrate by reading the book and joining the discussion.
Book Synopsis
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba–the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people–and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past. (Bookshop)
Links to purchase Minor Detail:
New Directions Publishing
Bookshop

Omar El Akkad in Conversation With Roy Scranton
2021-07-20 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
From Omar El Akkad, the widely acclaimed author of American War, comes What Strange Paradise (Knopf), a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving new novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level of a child’s eyes. More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of Vänna: a teenage girl, native to the island, who lives inside her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though she and the boy are complete strangers, though they don’t speak a common language, she determines to do whatever it takes to save him. In alternating chapters, we learn the story of the boy’s life and of how he came to be on the boat; and we follow the girl and boy as they make their way toward a vision of safety. But as the novel unfurls we begin to understand that this is not merely the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world, it is the story of our collective moment in this time: of empathy and indifference, of hope and despair — and of the way each of those things can blind us to reality, or guide us to a better one. El Akkad will be joined in conversation by Roy Scranton, author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene and We’re Doomed. Now What?.
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The Art Historical Timeline of Palestinian Embroidery
2021-08-01
Class Type: Lecture Series
Difficulty Level: All Levels
Prerequisite: None
“The Art Historical Timeline of Palestinian Embroidery” is a six-module lecture-based course that combines existing art historical scholarship with Wafa Ghnaim’s most current, peer-reviewed research to explore and expand the traceable origins of traditional Palestinian textiles throughout the centuries.
Class Dates & Times:
The modules will be released on August 1, 2021. Optional live class discussions are scheduled for students to join with the instructor, ask questions, and share their thoughts with the community.
Modules:

Module 1: Traceable Origins of Traditional Palestinian Costume (2 hr)
Module 2: English and European Holy Land Portraiture (2 hr)
Module 3: Photography of the Holy Land (2 hr)
Module 4: Regional Distinctions of the Modern Period 1850 -1948 (2 hr)
Module 5: Exile & Dispossession in the Late Modern Period, 1950s – 1970s (2 hr)
Module 6: Palestinian Revivalism & The Avant-Garde, 1980s – current (2 hr)
Module 7: Live Class Discussion (2 hr)

Where
100% online through Tatreez & Tea Central
$200 for 3 month access to all content.

Landback U: Palestine and Indigenous solidarity
2021-08-14 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us to ground yourself in Palestinian history and resistance through stories and first hand accounts. Led by our own Sandra Tamari and Lenna Zahran Nasr of the Palestinian Youth Movement.
The Right of Return and the Right to Remain, that’s our demand and that’s what we’ll be discussing Saturday, August 14th for LANDBACK U’s session on Palestine & indigenous solidarity. LANDBACK U is a free, comprehensive, online learning platform to engage in political education and discussions on topics critical to the Indigenous movement to reclaim land and relationship to land.
We are grateful to our relatives at NDN Collective for hosting this session and for their unwavering solidarity.

STORYTELLING THROUGH SPORTS
2021-08-21 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Saturday, August 21st from 1 pm to 2 pm
The panel will feature three different Palestinian sportswomen and men who will share their stories around the importance of sports in their life. They will speak to how they are navigating everyday life under occupation to excel and create sport opportunities for themselves and their local community.
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Arab Film Series Online: The Lebanese Rocket Society
2021-08-28 - 2021-08-29
Arab Film Series Online: The Lebanese Rocket Society
Film available 12 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 28 to 11:59 p.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 29
Free with RSVP
In partnership with ArteEast and AFMI, AANM’s Arab Film Series Online this month presents the feature-length documentary Lebanese Rocket Society directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, which unravels the strange tale of the Lebanese space adventure forgotten from personal and collective memory. The film will be accompanied by a discussion with the artists. MORE INFO

Academic Freedom in Palestine: A Conversation with Imad Barghouthi
2021-08-28 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Please join Scientists for Palestine, in conversation with Imad Barghouthi, renowned Palestinian astrophysicist, father of five and Professor of Plasma Physics at Al Quds university (West Bank).
After already spending many weeks in administrative detention, he was eventually charged on the basis of his Facebook posts. Prof. Barghouthi then spent the next several months in administrative detention, away from his students and family, awaiting trial.Prof. Imad Barghouthi was recently released after nearly a year of administrative detention. After his arrest on July 22nd 2020, he was held in jail for several weeks without charges.
Prof. Barghouthi’s arrest came at great cost to him personally, and academically. Happening mere weeks before the semester started, many students were left without a teacher and/or mentor.
Scientists for Palestine’s international campaign demanding Prof. Barghouthi’s release was joined by thousands of scholars worldwide, including Nobel laureates and Fields medalists.
We now have the privilege of hosting Prof. Barghouthi’s first interview after his finally being freed. Join us to hear first hand about what it is like to be a professor in Palestine, the infringements of the Israeli occupation on academic freedom and the enduring determination of Palestinian academics to overcome them.
More information here →

Discussion/Q&A on Palestinian human rights and resistance, moderated by Free Palestine HFX
2021-08-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for a discussion/Q&A on Palestinian human rights and resistance, moderated by Free Palestine HFX this Saturday @ 7PM (AST).

Please register before the event via Zoom with the link provided in our bio.

This phenomenal lineup of speakers pictured up above will be joining us!

1) Miko Peled: author of the General’s Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation. He is a long time advocate for justice in Palestine, and has spoken around the world about the detrimental effects that have resulted from Zionism.

2) Dimitri Lascaris: a lawyer, activist and journalist living in Montreal, Quebec. Dimitri is a long time Palestinian rights activist, and in 2020, he ran for the Green Party of Canada.

3) Mohamad El Attar: an accountant, activist, and Youtuber by the name of That Muslim Guy. He is a Palestinian Canadian, and spends most of his time after work making comedy and educational videos about Islam, politics, and Palestine.

4) Judy Haiven: a member of Independent Jewish Voices and a writer and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Judy is the founder of Equity Watch, a human rights organization dedicated to fighting bullying and discrimination in the workplace.

Arab Film Series Online: Eleven Reflections on September
2021-09-09 - 2021-09-16
Film available Thursday, Sept. 9 – Thursday, Sept. 16
Online Stream – Register for Free
Join the Arab Film Series Online for a special program Eleven Reflections on September by Andrea Assaf: A poetry, music, movement and digital media exploration of Arab American experience, Wars on/of Terror, and “the constant, quiet rain of death amidst beauty” that each autumn brings in a post-9/11 world. The program will be accompanied by a discussion with the artist Andrea Assaf as well as Lubana Al Qantar, moderated by Leila Buck, available Sept. 13-16.
Based on a series of poems Andrea Assaf has written since 2001, Eleven Reflections spans the fall of the Twin Towers, the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the global rise of anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia, and the revolutions and uprisings that have swept through the Arab world in the last decade. Aesthetically, the poems explore the disintegration of language in the face of violence, prejudice, and unspeakable horror, as they progress from lyrical to abstract and broken.
The annual witnessing of autumn leaves becomes a metaphor for the fallen…as we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, this ever-evolving tour de force finds new relevance and urgency. As an experimental work that lives at the intersection of live performance and digital media, Eleven Reflections on September is beautiful, haunting, and truly genre-shattering.
104 minutes / 2021 / United States / Experimental / English and Arabic with English subtitles
Presented in partnership with Arab Film and Media Institute and ArteEast
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ARCE Chicago: The Egyptian Game of Senet, from the New Kingdom to Roman Time: Funerary Destiny, Astronomy, and Medicine
2021-09-11 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Lecture Information:
The game of senet is one of the most famous board games of Egyptian Antiquity. Attested from the 4th millennium BC, it is characterized by its thirty squares. It was played by 2 players, each one having 5 to 7 playing pieces, whose progress obviously depends on fate—by the throwing of sticks or a pair of knucklebones—but also on strategy. This talk will re-evaluate the role usually attributed to senet in the funerary sphere in the New Kingdom, and will discuss the evolution of the game during the first millennium, when it seems more related to astronomical practices, calculating time, and perhaps, medicine for the eyes.

(Please double check that I have the time right when you register!)

Virtual screening of the documentary film "Lost Cities of Palestine" directed by Ramez Kazmouz
2021-09-18 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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About the Film
An extraordinary insight into Palestinian life in the city before 1948, revealing the loss of a culture and lifestyle.
The film, directed by Ramez Kazmouz, is 49 minutes.
Rarely seen archival footage accompanies memories and accounts of forgotten Palestinian cities and the catastrophic effect the creation of Israel in 1948 had on them.
Haifa, Nazareth, and Jaffa have all been overshadowed by Tel Aviv, but in their day each of the Palestinian cities had magnificent commercial and cultural ability.
Made for Al Jazeera in 2011, “Lost cities of Palestine” provides a rare opportunity to see Palestine as it was in the 30s and 40s and learn about the everyday life and culture of urban Palestine before 1948.

ARCE PA: Reconstructing Egypt's East Frontier Defense Network in the New Kingdom
2021-09-18 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
About Lecture:
Excavations in North Sinai beginning in the 1980s and the work at Tell el-Borg from 1999-2008 has uncovered a series of forts that were on the “Ways of Horus” and served as part of the defensive network of Egypt’s east frontier in the New Kingdom. Geological work has revealed the paleo-environment and ancient landscape that influenced the arrangement of the defensive system. Thanks to the new data, new maps can be drawn to reveal how the east frontier defense network operated throughout the New Kingdom and how it thwarted the Sea Peoples invasion in Ramesses III’s reign.

Virtual: Building for Hope with Marwa al-Sabouni
2021-09-25 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We can’t begin to say how delighted, how grateful, how honored we are to finally be able to present a program with author, thinker, architect, Marwa al-Sabouni. If all goes well (In sh’Allah), she will be joining us at this special hour, virtually and ‘live’ from her home in Homs, Syria to discuss her extraordinary new book, Building for Hope: Towards an Architecture of Belonging (Thames & Hudson). Building for Hope comes five years after Marwa al-Sabouni’s first book, The Battle for Home: The Vision of a Young Architect in Syria, introduced the larger world to a writer uniquely adept at using words to convey ideas from books, book-study, life being fully lived (and wars survived) and from the physical spaces of buildings, streets, land-use patterns that do so much to shape how we live as individuals and as communities and countries.

“Ambitious… Building for Hope is expansive, abstract, and at times extraordinarily idealistic… Al-Sabouni argues that architecture is a necessary agent for any kind of peace, any possibility of belonging in our modern, extremely polarized world… It’s especially enlightening to read about Western cities through the lens of an architect specialized in Islamic traditions… Building for Hope is dense and daring. Readers will finish with a list of people and places to investigate, as well as with a firm belief that a better future lies in valuing community over ostentation, coherence and decency over luxury, truly livable cities over places designed purely for profit.” – World-Architects.com.
“A gifted writer and illustrator, al-Sabouni’s visionary ideas will inspire architects, designers and urban planners across the world.” – Shahina Piyarali , Shelf Awareness.
Yes, the illustrations, that language, too. This is one not to be missed.
Saturday, September 25, 2021 – 10:00am

ARCE Georgia: A New Look at the Treasures of Tutankhamun’s Tomb
2021-10-02 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
When Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in 1922, the objects in it created a sensation. For decades the objects have dazzled the world and been the centerpiece of the Cairo Museum. Even so, the circumstances of Tutankhamun’s death and burial have always raised questions. The construction of new museums in Egypt, and the relocation of these objects, has created a new opportunity for study of many of these objects.
In a lecture titled A New Look at the Treasures of Tutankhamun’s Tomb, Dr. Robert Bianchi, chief curator at the Ancient Egyptian Museum Shibuya [Tokyo] will focus on the reevaluation of objects from this most famous of tombs.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Atlanta Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt and the Carlos Museum.

HWAYITAH WA KHAMIYSA WA GHREEN: INTRODUCTION TO LIBYAN DRESS & ADORNMENT
2021-10-05 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Event Description: Dr. Reem El Mutwalli in conversation with Najlaa El-Ageli, Founder of Noon Arts Projects, a small private arts foundation, with a mission to bring the best of contemporary Libyan art, from both emerging and established artists, and expose it to the world stage, discussing her recent jewelery exhibition and providing our audience with an introduction to Libyan dress and adornment.
New Date: 5th October 2021
Time:12pm (NYC), 5pm (London), 8pm (Dubai)
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
Registering will not only give you access to the live session but also a recorded version to catch up on in your own time.
Eventbrite link which is now live:
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Webinar: Arab American Theater
2021-10-07 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for a rich and engaging conversation with Arab American playwrights, theater actors, and producers: Kathryn Haddadm Jamil Khoury, Lameece Issaq, and Malek Najjar. This panel discussion and conversation will be moderated by Catherine Coray, a Professor of Theater at NYU.

Register here.

Virtual Book Event - Conversation with Rania Matar about her book "SHE | RANIA MATAR"
2021-10-10 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Virtual Book Event – Conversation with Rania Matar about her book “SHE | RANIA MATAR”

Sunday, October 10, 2021
12:00 PM 1:30 PM
Palestine Museum US (map)

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All times are based on US EDT – 12 Noon, 7:00 PM in Palestine.
Join us for a coversation with Rania Mata about her new photography book. Rania is a Lebanese/Palestinian/American documentary, portrait and fine art photographer. She photographs the daily lives of girls and women in the Middle East and in the United States.

Solidarity Town Hall: Imagining Decolonized Futures
2021-10-14 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
Join us for our annual Solidarity Town Hall program, an anchor discussion as part of AANM’s theme for Fall 2021 – Spring 2022: Istiqbal al Mustaqbal (Welcoming the Future). This year, the Town Hall is themed Imagining Decolonized Futures, highlighting futurist and sci-fi narratives as we imagine a world without colonial concepts. The Town Hall will feature keynote speaker: Anishinaabe academic and author Grace Dillon; and panelists: multidisciplinary Afrofuturist artist Bryce Detroit, Canadian and Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson, and British Palestinian fiction writer Selma Dabbagh; with moderator Hina Baloch, leader of the Research & Analytics team at GM. This is a virtual event taking place via Zoom.

Virtual Delegations to Visit Public Street Art Installations w/ Eyewitness Palestine
2021-10-16
Join us for a virtual delegation to visit public art installations in Palestine. During this delegation we will speak with artists and see the ways in which they use art as a resistance tool. Join Palestinian artists, from the US and Palestine!
This delegation is co-sponsored by the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
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ARCE PA: Revealing the Practice of Tattooing in Ancient Egypt
2021-10-16 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
About Lecture:
The practice of tattooing in ancient Egypt is rarely attested. Egyptologists have identified tattoos on only a handful of mummies spanning Pharaonic Egypt’s more than 3,000 year history. Textual evidence is virtually silent on the practice and art historical evidence is often ambiguous. In 2014, the mission of the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) made an incredible find–an extensively tattooed mummy from the necropolis at Deir el-Medina, the community of the workmen who cut and decorated the New Kingdom’s royal tombs. With over 30 tattoos, this woman completely redefined what we knew about tattooing in ancient Egypt. The extensive use of Hathoric imagery in these tattoos further showed us the incredible amount of religious agency women could hold during a time when the title “priestess of Hathor” was not even attested. Since then, we have used infrared imaging to identify dozens of new tattoos among the many unpublished human remains at the site. This talk presents the most recent findings from the bioarchaeological team of the 2019 and 2020 IFAO mission at Deir el-Medina. These additional tattoos indicate that many more individuals were likely tattooed at Deir el-Medina. Additionally, the designs and placement of tattoos varied broadly. Coalescing the physical and art historical evidence, this talk offers some of the most comprehensive evidence we have to date on the practice of tattooing in ancient Egypt.
